Lord Vishnu                                                                    

Faith has a meaning, which cannot be described, in words…but only by feeling it…the world can never exist without faith…it is this unbounded and perpetual power, which gives a meaning to our life… Faith is something, which acts like the rope that saves the life of a mountaineer when his life is in danger…

It was the year 2004 when this incident happened….

 During my summer vacations, we planned to visit some nearby places such as Madurai, Rameshwaram, Chennai and Thirupati (The most famous temple of India)…After visiting the first three places, we were very excited to go to the temple…But the time we reached there was during the elections. And so, due to this, all the tickets were sold out. There were no tickets available for the next 3 days. My dad tried every other way but failed. We could also not wait hat longer because my dad had to go back for his work. We were so very disappointed.

That night, my mom cried very loudly…she became deeply emotional… The more loudly she cried, the more it rained…

The next day…

 My mom bought herself an Idol of Lord Vishnu…

She kept it in our house temple in the seventh day after returning from there… She cried most of the times for more than ten days…

 One day…

 On the first week of June, early in the morning at 5.30, my mom and dad both saw the dream of Lord Vishnu…My dad saw in his dream an Idol of Lord Vishnu inside a temple…. And what my mom saw was unbelievable!

It was Lord Vishnu himself! He had a dark cloud like skin color… He came to my mom and said” Sumu…Look at myself…. from now on till everyday…bathe the idol that you bought with yourself with cow milk….”

 As soon as she woke up, she told my father about he dream… and she was so glad and surprised to hear that my father too had dreamt of Lord Vishnu! It was such a miracle!

After that happened…. My mother shed so much tears of devotion… She finally got to see him….

Later she came to know from a book that Lord Vishnu likes cow milk very much and also that his skin is dark cloud like color… I was really a miracle!

Since that day, She has never forgotten to offer our lord’s Idol milk…and never will she ever forget to do so throughout her life…

In the next year of my summer vacations, we finally got the tickets to go to the temple…

We were so happy…

For one year my mom had been waiting for this…

She was often checking the tickets kept in the purse…

Then we finally reached…

But as soon as we entered the temple after two hours of waiting in the line, the bodyguards of the temple were giving us very little time to stand there in front of the Lord’s idol and pray… One of the guards almost pushed me and my mom out of there… my mom could not bear it… so she burst out of tears…”Lord Vishnu!!!…”She cried… everyone looked at her… seeing her the bodyguards gave us much time to pray… but my mom could see nothing except the Sudarshan Chakra as her eyes were filled with tears…

I can never forget that…

My mom didn’t want me to publish this as she didn’t want to show off… but she agreed after I tried to convince her.